A ridiculous number of players have flocked to Battlefield 6 over the weekend, hopping into multiplayer matches and testing out what’s possible within EA and Battlefield Studios’ big new release. This includes reaching out-of-bounds rooftops for absurd sniping spots, in spite of efforts to prevent such attempts.
Dubbed “Rooftop glitches” for self-explanatory reasons, the term describes any route or method which allows a player to reach the rooftop of a building that should be inaccessible. The benefits to abusing a rooftop glitch are plentiful, as it allows players with sniper rifles to settle in a location overlooking key objectives or funnel points.
In Battlefield 6’s Siege of Cairo map, for instance, there’s a large central street where much of a match’s most explosive fights happen. It’s meant to be an arduous position to fight over, without many truly safe positions to hunker down.
Enter the rooftop glitch, which allows snipers to climb on top of a wooden watchtower by the highway overlooking this street. With some fast sprinting and smart use of Assault Ladders, it takes around a minute or two to reach. Also, if you go prone while up there, you’re totally safe from incoming fire from grounded enemies.
This spot (which you can watch yourself on Tiktok) offers great sightlines into the main street mentioned previously, as well as neighbouring buildings and attack points. It’s a little bit busted and will probably get patched out in good time.
It’s worth noting due to the open specialist system, where weapons aren’t locked to their typical classes, it’s easier for a lone sniper to make their way up to spots like this. This is because a player can use the Assault class with a sniper equipped to make use of those handy ladders, something not possible in a closed-off system. You’d have to wait until a squadmate on Assault made their way up their first, then spawn on them, before sniping from such a position would be possible.
This is not the first time players have scrambled up walls on to naughty rooftops on Siege of Cairo. During the incredibly popular open beta, alternative means of reaching such illegal peaks were uncovered by the game’s initial wave. With thousands trying to get through the queues and play Battlefield 6, who knows just how many will suffer at the hands of untouchable snipers.
